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Title: Entrusted Loans: A Close Look at China's Shadow Banking System

Author(s): Franklin Allen, Yiming Qian, Guoqian Tu and Frank Yu

Publication Date: April 2018

Keyword(s): credit shortage, entrusted loans, fundamental risk, informational risk and shadow banking

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: We perform transaction-level analyses of entrusted loans-one of the largest components of shadow banking in China. Entrusted loans involve firms with privileged access to cheap capital channeling funds to less privileged firms, and increase when credit is tight. Nonaffiliated loans have much higher interest rates than both affiliated loans and official bank loans, and largely flow into real estate. The pricing of entrusted loans-especially of nonaffiliated loans-incorporates fundamental and informational risks. Stock market reactions suggest that both affiliated and nonaffiliated loans are fairly compensated investments.

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Allen, F, Qian, Y, Tu, G and Yu, F. 2018. 'Entrusted Loans: A Close Look at China's Shadow Banking System'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=12864